Checking the Radar

Our fore fathers who lived and breathed the very same land as us would probably be incredulous if they knew the tools we have at our disposal these days. To what am I referring? Radar, meteograms, four day forecasts; our ability to know what the weather will most likely be, ahead of time. Our grandparents had to read the clouds or the patterns over their lifetime instead of utilising the internet and science we have at our disposal now. Does it help? I'm sure it does as we know when to pull the roof over the super shed, when to stop harvesting, when to put the freshly shorn sheep into shelter. On the other hand, does knowing exactly what isn't coming wreak havoc on our minds? Allow us to feel despair where our fore fathers would have just kept going, oblivious to what the research says isn't there? There are upsides and downsides to everything. As people who live on the land and love every second of it we learn to moderate when we use some of these tools. Each generation of farmers faces different trials, and each generation of farmers works to get the very best out of the tools we have. That is why we are where we are today.